Culpeper County school administrators welcome back Anne Frank!
Some school hack had decided to ban Frank's diary from the county's school curriculum. This was a bad idea as well as an unpopular one. WaPo writes:
"Director of instruction James Allen last week told The Washington Post that the definitive edition of the diary would not be used [...]

8:01 p.m. Good evening everyone! The ceremony doesn't start for another half-hour, so take this time to settle in, practice your snark, and load up on snacks and DayQuil. (Whoops, maybe only I need that last one. But hey, could make parts of the telecast more interesting.)
8:20 p.m. Starting the montages early with an ode [...]

I'm always excited about the Academy Awards — yeah, there are still a few of us left out there — but I'm guessing there won't be a whole lot of thrilling and/or shocking moments this year. (Most any upset would go thusly: Oooh, the frontrunner didn't win! Which means...someone or -thing completely undeserving did.)
But for [...]

Let's see, where did I leave off nearly 12 hours ago?
Actually, I don't have a whole lot more to say:
8) I'm flabbergasted that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button received 13 (!) nominations, while the superior and far more engaging Gran Torino got nothing.
9) I think Milk and Slumdog Millionaire are the only [...]

Actually, you should totally buy it. I think owning movies is stupid (maybe it's because there's forever a laundry list of stuff I still want to see, but probably because I'm cheap), but even I'd get this one if the nice Warner Bros. peeps hadn't already sent over a for-your-consideration copy. I could watch the [...]